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The great English jurist, Sir William Blackstone (1723-1780), argued in his Commentaries on the Laws of England (1753) that one of the key "absolute rights of individuals" was the right to the preservation of one's personal liberty. Following from this principle he further argued that it was "a more dangerous engine of arbitrary government" to "secretly hurry" a man to jail where he might suffer unknown or forgotten by the people
Of great importance to the public is the preservation of this personal liberty; for if once it were left in the power of any the highest magistrate to imprison arbitrarily whomever he or his officers thought proper, (as in France it is daily practised by the crown,) there would soon be an end of all other rights and immunities. Some have thought that unjust attacks, even upon life or property, at the arbitrary will of the magistrate, are less dangerous to the commonwealth than such as are made upon the personal liberty of the subject. To bereave a man of life, or by violence to confiscate his estate, without accusation or trial, would be so gross and notorious an act of despotism, as must at once convey the alarm of tyranny throughout the whole kingdom; but confinement of the person, by secretly hurrying him to jail, where his sufferings are unknown or forgotten, is a less public, a less striking, and therefore a more dangerous engine of arbitrary government.
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Blackstone believes that in a dire emergency key liberties like habeas corpus can be suspended temporarily but only by an act of the parliament or the courts, and not by the executive power. The use of arbitrary power to curtail personal liberty would be to him "so gross and notorious an act of despotism, as must at once convey the alarm of tyranny throughout the whole kingdom". But he left his very considerable wrath for the case of secret imprisonment without trial or charges ("secretly hurrying him to jail") as the "more dangerous engine of arbitrary government".


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STRANGE BUT TRUE- Penguin push: How the killer whale gets his meal
Q. What strategy do penguins use to avoid being attacked and devoured by a killer whale?–Shamu
A. They "play a waiting game akin to killer-whale roulette," says Mark Buchanan in The Social Atom. By a form of social cooperation or learning, groups of penguins keep a careful watch on each other, taking note when another penguin ventures into the infested water to see how it fares. At first, only the hungriest penguin ventures in, until the coast is proven clear or to be avoided at all costs.
Yet at times no penguin gets that desperate, and so all hang back, waiting. In such cases, it has been known for some penguins to toss a sacrificial one into the drink "with a not-so-gentle nudge." The general social category here is "imitation"– or doing what others in the group have done safely or not doing what hasn't worked. This of course is a far-reaching favorite of humans as well.
Q. When you drive, do you really make as good time as you think you do? Or asked another way, what's your "average automotive speed"?–S.Racer
A. Let's assume you drive about 12,000 miles a year. To do that, you have to spend about $6,000 per year on payments, repairs, gasoline, insurance and all the rest. So to run your car you've got to work an average of about two months out of 12, or about 8 weeks, or about 300 hours a year. That's finances.
Then there's the actual time you spend in your car, which if you're typical is about one hour a day to drive your 12,000 miles. This computes to an additional 300 or so hours a year spent on transporting yourself. And let's not forget time for washings and polishings, tire and oil checks, repairs and what-not. We'll conservatively toss in another hour a week, or 50 more hours a year sunk into your automobility. Now, totaling the number of hours spent on both getting places and maintaining your wheels, we get 300 + 300 + 50 = 650 hours.
And considering that these 650 hours are invested to travel 12,000 miles, and that your average speed equals the overall distance divided by your time spent in getting there, then we need to divide 12,000 miles by 650 hours.
What this computation yields is the surprising figure of an average of 18.5 miles traveled per hour of time you spend on or in your car. Yes, that's 18.5 mph! (Based on "Guesstimation," by Lawrence Weinstein and John A. Adam)
Q. What's the origin of political "mud-slinging"?–V. Goode
A. It dates back to ancient Rome when candidates for the senate wore white togas, inviting mudballs from detractors, says "Isaac Asimov's Book of Facts." The toga of an unpopular figure soon became "toga maculosa" (defiled by mud), meaning he could no longer be a candidate– literally, "clothed in white."
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A bed and breakfast is a quaint alternative to a traditional hotel. It's a cozier experience for travelers, who receive a peaceful night and a meal prepared for you in the morning. Many eco friendly travelers have found that a green B&B, one in which the house may be LEED-certified, energy efficient, using enviromentally safe products and where the breakfasts served are organic, local, seasonal and sustainable, is certainly the way to travel. For added solace the inn and surrounding grounds are infused with the sights and sounds of nature.
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The figure is modest compared with other global wind markets but shows how targets, policy and, perhaps most importantly, incentive mechanisms are helping to facilitate investment in wind.
Thailand is targeting 1.2GW of installed wind capacity by 2021 under its alternative energy development plan. The country's 7MW installed capacity was considerably boosted in late 2012, when the 104MW Korat wind farm came online in the central province of Nakhon Ratchasima. Thai developer Wind Energy Holding is working on a second phase of the same size, due to be operational by the second quarter of this year. Siemens supplied the turbines for both phases.
Chin's Goldwind also entered Thailand, with a contract to supply Thai independent power producer Electricity Generating Public Company with three low-wind turbines for the Theppana wind farm in Chaiyaphum province, to be completed later this year.
The Thai government subsidises wind power by supplementing the standard electricity tariff with THB 4.5/kWh ($0.15/kWh) for projects under 50MW and THB 3.5/kWh for larger projects.
The Philippines
Since 2010, operational wind capacity in the Philippines has remained at 33MW. However, in mid-2012 the state-run Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) finally approved feed-in tariff (FIT) rates for wind, biomass, solar and hydroelectric. The wind FIT is PHP 8.53/kWh ($0.21/kWh). Implementing FIT rates should start to get the Philippines wind industry moving. The government is targeting 200MW of wind between 2013 and 2015, although the earliest project will be completed in mid-2014.
In 2012, Taiwan installed 57MW of new capacity, all onshore. It is making progress offshore too, and in mid-2012 its economy ministry announced an incentive programme for offshore wind demonstration projects.
Under the programme, the government will subsidise 50% of the capital expenditure for the installation of four demonstration turbines. An additional $8.3 million will subsidise two demonstration offshore wind farms, one of which will be developed by a consortium led by Taiwan Generations Corporation.
Vietnam has a target of 1GW wind by 2020 and 6.2GW by 2030. A FIT rate of VND 1,614/kWh ($0.08/kWh) was introduced in 2011. But only 6MW came online last year, taking the total to 36MW. In December, the first phase of the Bac Lieu wind farm was due to be completed by developer Cong Ly Construction and Trading Company.
The project is classed as offshore wind as it is located in a part of the Mekong Delta that is prone to seasonal flooding. GE supplied ten 1.6MW turbines.
Many local firms are now developing wind projects, including PetroVietnam Power Corporation, which developed the 6MW Phu Quy onshore wind farm in Binh Thuan province, which came online in January.


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Nehalem-EP Workstation preview: 16 threads, 3.2 GHz, 48GB RAM
For a long time, dual processor systems intrigued many high-end desktop users: adding the second CPU propelled your personal PC into the "parallel processing" exotic workstation and HPC [High Performance Computing] realm, without jumping into the overly complex and expensive quad-socket and larger systems. And, two-socket systems can for the most part still fit within the usual high-end PC size and power envelope.
Remember the Dual Celeron 300's running on many overclockers' rigs at 500 MHz and above, stable for years? That trend was then continued with the Intel D5400XS Skulltrail "extreme desktop" version of their dual Xeon workstation motherboards. The attraction only got stronger as the multi-core push resulted in operating systems, applications and even games supporting multi-thread parallelism better than before.
However, at least on Intel systems, the shared FSB did pose a bit of MP scaling bottleneck in any memory-intensive app. Dual FSB1600 on the systems like Skulltrail and other Seaburg chipset platforms did help somewhat, when combined with four channel memory configuration and cache snoop filters in the chipset North Bridge. At that time, even those STREAM-like memory benchmarks that often eluded Intel became substantially closer in results to AMD's DP Opteron platform. But it wasn't enough to win back the memory performance crown.
Now, the upcoming Nehalem-EP "Gainestown" platform is expected to take the dual processor performance crown in pretty much every category conceivable from March 30th onwards, finally balancing the performance act. Whether we're talking about raw integer and FP performance from its sixteen threads – four cores per chip, running at up to 3.2 GHz and the multithreading scaling with two threads per core, the bidirectional QPI bandwidth of 25.6 GB/s between the two processors, and triple-channel DDR3-1333 integrated memory controllers on each CPU – the new dual processor sister platform of the Core i7 does show promise.
Cutting to the chase, enough has already been said about the Nehalem architecture. Here is an early look at one of the first Nehalem DP workstation reference platforms, Intel's reference system based on the Super Micro X8DAi motherboard. In this intro part, the first of this multi-part series extending till next week, we will have a glance at the complete system setup, and some comments on how to possibly improve it. The following part will then highlight some of the interesting BIOS features that differentiate this power monster from your typical high end PC.
Opening up the side panel, you'll see the two LGA1366 CPU sockets – yes, the same as Core i7, except that the second QPI link between the two CPUs is enabled here. Intel is finally standardizing the Socket commonality between higher-end processors. Similarities include the heat sink mounting – so yes, finally the UP and DP platforms can share the same cooling solutions, including the more exotic liquid, TEC, fridge and freeze stuff from the high end desktops as long as, of course, they fit in pairs.
Under the two aluminum heatsinks with front-mounted fans, each socket holds the fastest Nehalem-EP at launch: the W5580 Xeon, running at the same 3.2 GHz, 6.4 Gbps QPI speed as the Core i7 965. Note that the initial D0 stepping of this chip is the same as the expected Core i7 Extreme 975, a superb overclocker with high "performance enhancement" margins. So, if the multipliers were unlocked, the W5580 could give out some "naughty" numbers too.
Two CPUs means double the memory channels in total – most workstation boards here will be happy with total of twelve DIMM slots, two per channel, and that includes the X8DAi. With Samsung's recently announced 16 GB DDR3 R-DIMMs, you can pack a humongous 192 GB RAM in this box. Given the pricing of the parts, this could mean that you can start thinking about having a super computer on your desktop, instead of usual off-loading demanding tasks – large servers or supercomputers. The test configuration was equipped with twelve 4 GB ECC R-DIMMs, also from Samsung, for a total of "only" 48 GB memory – still the largest memory PC to ever enter my lab
ECC memory is nice, but can we get something faster?
Now, I was curious whether Super Micro will block me from running the standard Core i7 DDR3 DIMMs, like the fast DDR3-2000 3-channel kit from Kingston. After all, these are very fast modules – CL8 at DDR3-2000 being achievable on ASUS Rampage Extreme with the newest BIOS – but they are the unbuffered, non-ECC desktop kind. So, I replaced the entire DRAM with six HyperX modules, one per each CPU's memory channel. Guess what, they worked! At only DDR3-1333 speed though, as the BIOS option for "Forced DDR3-1600" didn't seem to take effect.
Can you imagine, if this memory would work at its native speed of 2 GT/s, this system would have 96GB/s of bandwidth for CPUs alone?
Nevertheless, as you see on the photo, this big baby can take your favorite Core i7 desktop memory and spread it nicely across no less than six channels! It will be lovely to compare once the benchmark time comes next week. In theory, this system should give you just a little below 64 GB/s of memory bandwidth. This is more available memory bandwidth than most low-end and mainstream graphics cards!
Super Micro's design calls… good or bad?
The Tylersburg 36D chipset IO Hub [NorthBridge chip, Ed.] is the dual-QPI sister of the X58 desktop one, the only major difference being the second QPI channel to enable talking to either two CPUs at the same time, or one of the CPU and – get this – another Tylersburg bridge for dual IOH configuration with, say, four independent PCIe x16 paths. This board has only one IOH, therefore we're limited to two PCIe Gen2 x16 and one PCIe Gen1 x4 slot. Why isn't the x4 slot running at Gen2 speed, since the IOH supports it? Well, Super Micro, in a questionable decision allocated the IOH's Gen2 x4 lanes to an optional on-board SAS controller chip from LSI, which our board doesn't have – you need X8DA3 motherboard flavor to have it. And, the x4 slot lanes come instead from the ICH9 SouthBridge chip, which only supports PCIe Gen1 speed and is limited by the ICH-to-IOH connection bandwidth.
Now, if you use a higher end SAS RAID controller with local processor and cache, for say, your SSD array, the extra double bandwidth of the PCIe Gen2 would come in handy. So, the IOH Gen2 lanes should have been brought to that empty slot instead, and the optional on-board SAS relegated to the ICH PCIe. I've added Intel's own SAS RAID controller here with their kind help, and we will see how much the Gen1 speed limits it when using a quad SSD RAID0 array. The other interfaces – dual Gigabit Ethernet, on board SATA and USB ports, integrated audio, plus two legacy serial ports and, luckily, PS/2 keyboard and mouse connectors – round up the I/O. Nothing overly exciting there in regards to interfaces.
The system is equipped with two 800W PSUs [Power Supply Units], together supplying enough power to feed everything, including two of the fastest graphics cards you could imagine for 2009. With one PSU alone, as I tested, it couldn't even feed an Asus HD4870X2 triple-fan "Harley-lookalike" card together with the rest of the components. Two PSUs, though, do it fine.
Super Micro's beta BIOS probably needs more work…
What could Super Micro improve here on the board level, before we go into the BIOS? First off, the BIOS showed pretty unusual CPU temp readings above the 60C level, either Super Micro's temperature sensors need to be checked, or the heat sinks need to be replaced. Since the casing is fairly spacious, a heat sink replacement with higher-end units from the desktop LGA1366 market is a sure option.
Secondly, the PCIe slot layout: a 7-slot configuration, with PCIe slots configured as two x16 and two x4 (one Gen1 and another Gen2 for the latter), plus a x1 PCIe slot for more proper audio instead of that on-board software, finally rounded off by two spare PCI and/or PCI-X slots on the side, which would use the chipset resources better and provide for more flexible expansion.
Third, as the IOH North Bridge does heat up quite a bit, replacing that thin aluminum heatsink, or at least providing easy mounting option for a slim local fan to take care of it. This could be accomplished without being blocked by, say, a long graphics card.
Then, of course, some board real estate could be saved by using Intel's 82576 dual-port GbE controller with quite a decent amount of TCP/IP offload, instead to the two 82573V chips being used now. Yes, the 82576 is more expensive, but you also save a PCIe lane and valuable board space.
12 DIMMs can take up to 192GB of DDR3-1333 memory, provided that your pockets are deep enough…
Nevertheless, it's quite an impressive board feature-wise. Asus and few others do claim to have even more impressive or simply faster Nehalem-EP workstation motherboards, but we'll leave that opinion until we actually test those new boards too. We'll follow up with article that will thoroughly explore BIOS options…
UPDATE, March 30th, 2009 01:26 UTC – We have published a follow-up containing more details about this exciting new platform. You can find Nehalem-EP Workstation Preview Part II if you click here.
Original Author: Nebojsa Novakovic
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There may be a way for people with obstructive sleep apnea to lower their blood pressure without adding medications. A new Spanish study finds using continuous positive airway pressure, or CPAP, can help to bring their blood pressure down.
"This is a very important finding, particularly for physicians who are taking care of patients with resistant hypertension to assess for obstructive sleep apnea in these patients and to treat for it," said Dr. Harneet Walia, who did not take part in the study but treats sleep apnea patients at Cleveland Clinic.
Researchers in Valencia, Spain studied the effects CPAP might have on people with obstructed sleep apnea, who also had high blood pressure, and were taking 3 or more medications to control it.
They received CPAP treatments for 12 weeks and results show a decrease in their 24-hour average blood pressure, their diastolic blood pressure, and an improvement in their nighttime blood pressure pattern, too.
Researchers say more studies are needed to determine the long-term effects, but continuous positive airway pressure may provide a way for people to lower their blood pressure without additional medications. Walia agrees.
"Patients with resistant hypertension should be screened for obstructive sleep apnea and if they do have obstructed sleep apnea they should be treated with the ideal therapy, which would be continuous positive airway pressure," said Walia.
Complete findings for this study are in the Journal of the American Medical Association.


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Concert. The myth of Orpheus is the theme for this orchestral concert which will flow over the Main Stage and out into the foyer.
The myth of Orpheus is central to this orchestral concert which will flow over the Main Stage and out into the foyer. The Göteborg Opera Café and bars will be open after the concert. Take this chance to mingle with members of the Göteborg Opera Orchestra, the soloists for the evening and the Göteborg Opera's new Musical Director – our conductor for the evening, Henrik Schaefer!
Artists, poets and composers have been interpreting the tragic tale of Orpheus and his beloved Eurydice for centuries. This concert entertains with music inspired by that myth, from the early 17th century Orfeo by Claudio Monteverdi, to the current Nenia: The Death of Orpheus av Sir Harrison Birtwistle.
The first part of the concert offers entertaining music by Haydn, Rosenberg and Offenbach, while the second has a deeper gravity, with music by Stravinsky, Rautavaara and Liszt. The extended intermission will contain several surprises and musical voyages of discovery in the foyer.


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Friday, March 8, 2013
That time Noro Virus was in our house
What have *I* been up to, you may ask? Well a little bit of this and that. If your definition of "this and that" means: Norovirus (aka DEATH) visited our house, loading online shopping carts full of stuff but never buying it, slaying my workouts now that I got a HRM again, enjoying the Springlike weather with my T Rex, and finding webcams that are focused on the Mount of Olives (aka, the place the Bible says Christ will first touch down when He returns). <----- can="" google="" i="" it.="" make="" p="" seriously="" stuff="" t="" this="" up.="">
The Noro virus? No joke, ladies. To spare y'all the nitty gritty details, the hubbinator and I both had it..at the same time! As in, he started "showing signs of death" at 11pm, and at 2am, I "started signs of death". I was in shear panic on how I was going to care for my sweet crazy 2 year old and vomit at the same time. Seriously, I had never been sick (other than a common cold) since he's been born. When people talk about how miserable the Noro virus is, its no joke, no exaggerating, it suuuucks. But just as quickly as it came, it left us. By day 4 & 5, we were golden and back to normal as if nothing happened.
Since the Noro last week, I've been keeping it simple with workouts. I've been doing 2 DVD's every day. And you KNOW, Im a faithful Jillian & Bob follower, so they have been my executioners of choice. Spring is almost here, whoop whoop! And dont even get me started on Summer - Hallelu-yer! ----->
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In October of this year, Microsoft released the Music Deals apps for Windows 8.x and Windows Phone 8.1 but not with much fanfare. As it turns out, this app is a treasure trove of free and inexpensive music.
The way this app works is, there is a time-limited set of promotional deals for various types of music. Typically, there is one popular single listed very inexpensively ($0.99) and then there are three sets of themes for free or inexpensive albums. All of these promotions run for a variety of time periods, ranging from a week to fifteen days.
For example, last week there was a sale for fifty boxed sets, each at $2 only. These boxed sets typically sell for anywhere from $15 to sometimes even over $100, so these were fantastic steals. Last week also saw fifty free albums, all by popular artists.
This week the promotions continue and the discounted albums are popular rock albums and popular soundtracks, and the free albums include albums by artists like Ellie Goulding, ABBA, Imagine Dragons, etc.
The way this works is the Music Deals listing opens up the album in the Xbox Music app (or simply, Music app) on Windows or Windows Phone, and the discounted price is shown. Once you click on buy (or "get it free" when the album is free), depending on your settings, the music will start downloading or be marked as owned and available in the cloud for your use anytime in the future.
The beauty of this setup is that the music content is DRM-free and can be played on any device or software. So you don't have to feel compelled to use Windows and Windows Phone's music apps, you can use iTunes or pretty much any other software to play these tunes.
I am unclear what is the end game for Microsoft here. I know it will increase usage of the Music app, and maybe create more Microsoft accounts which can then be used to upsell premium services like paid storage or Office 365, but those seem like poor returns for the potential cost of the discounted music.
Regardless, this is a great deal for consumers and you should absolutely take advantage of these deals. Get the Music Deals apps here: Windows and Windows Phone.


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According to Caroline Robbins, the 18thC Commonwealthmen built upon the Old or Real Whig tradition and were active from the Glorious Revolution of 1688 to the eve of the American Revolution in 1776. They believed in natural rights, limited government, republicanism, parliamentary reform, the rule of law, religious toleration, the reform or ending of mercantilist economic regulation, increased independence for the colonies, secularized education, and of course, individual liberty.
|John Milton (1608-1674)
|James Harrington (1611-1677)
|John Toland (1670-1722)
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Caroline Robbins, The Eighteenth-Century Commonwealthman: Studies in the Transmission, Development, and Circumstance of English Liberal Thought from the Restoration of Charles II until the War with the Thirteen Colonies (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2004).
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Domo Arigato, Mr. Saeco
Posted by TheShot on 02 Aug 2012 | Tagged as: Home Brew, Machine, Quality Issues
The sad state of home espresso machines is a topic we've tried to avoid for long stretches. After our last depressing installment in 2009, we've been blissfully ignorant — ratcheting up the solid-but-rarely-outstanding shot pulls on our relatively decent home espresso setup of a Gaggia G106 Factory manual lever machine and a Mazzer Mini grinder.
That is until May, when disaster struck. After 10 years of abuse — where I tuned the coffee grind to the limits of what my "one-armed bandit" could handle before it choked — the central piston finally gave out with one fateful pull. Feeling the physical resistance of its lever vanish in one quick slip, I knew right away it was more than just the final, releasing grasp of an dying gasket.
Upon disassembly and inspection, part of the otherwise-durable Ryton plastic molding that holds the piston gaskets in place had clearly broken away. It's no surprise that Gaggia discontinued this part and now only produces a brass version. While replacement parts are easy to look up, my replacement piston was put on back-order from Italy until who-knows-when.
The Saeco Challenge
Now I like my Hario V60 or Chemex as much as the next guy. But a steady and exclusive diet of coffee masquerading as tea — i.e., tasting primarily of berries and flower gardens and lawn clippings — is most unsatisfying. Sure, I had the perfect excuse to have more espresso out again, but sometimes you want your quality espresso without leaving the house. Fortunately, life's misfortune sometimes creates the occasional unexpected opportunity. It arrived in June in the form of an email to coffeeratings.com from a Philips Saeco rep, with the subject-line come-on of "The Perfect Espresso from Philips Saeco":
Dear Greg,
Searching for the perfect espresso? We believe you can make it yourself, in the convenience of your home. I'm working closely with my client, Philips Saeco, to share their espresso machines with coffee experts like you. If it's a good fit, we'd like for you to send you one of these machines.
The normal Greg would have spewed out his home-roasted espresso blend across the kitchen table upon reading that. ("Perfect espresso"? Have they read my blog?) But home espresso beggars can't be choosers. And if there was ever an opportunity where I could dedicate my time and attention to make an honest attempt at decent espresso with one of these dubious, hulking plastic, overpriced, and underachieving superautomatic home espresso machines, this was it.
So last week, without notice, a giant Saeco box arrived on my front porch. Opening it up, I felt a little like Darren McGavin in A Christmas Story. But inside wasn't a glowing leg lamp. Rather, it was a Saeco Syntia HD8833. To my surprise, rather than sending a throwaway economy job, Saeco sent one of their better models — listing for about $1,000 retail.
If we are going to be outraged about the poor espresso quality from a superautomatic home machine, all the better not to dismiss the verdict on the basis of a cheap machine. We may have seen some of this machine's siblings in the showroom at the Saeco Caffè in Cape Town, South Africa — and the espresso there may not have been too shabby. But our experience with superautomatic home espresso machines like it has been flattering to the Nespresso machine, and we don't like Nespresso.
The Alien from Planet 'Brain-Dead Espresso'
While I am no home espresso novice, the contents of the Saeco box seemed practically alien. What's with all the plastic? Where's the metal? You mean there's more to today's home espresso machine electronics than a heating element? And what's that vibrating noise that sounds like a cheap home aquarium filter?
The device seems large, and yet it's considered "compact" by many of today's standards. Its side opens up like an ink jet printer — not exactly the mental analogy you want to be making for consumables. And it's ridiculously robotic. Everything has been automated to death: coffee grinding, dosing, tamping, extraction. Hope still lied in the fact that a number of its automated tasks were adjustable: fineness of the grind, the volume of coffee, and the extraction time. But I am leery of any coffee machine that tries to be smarter than you.
I gained back a little confidence when much of its accompanying printed documentation emphasized the importance of descaling and cleaning. I've lost count of how many horrific, Exxon-Valdez-sized coffee oil Superfund sites we've stumbled upon in various Nespresso machine kitchens — with their delusional, convenience-obsessed owners believing that these devices also automated their cleaning and maintenance.
The machine required an extended "priming" operation, where the machine went through a series of button pushes, water cycles, and its display performed its best rendition of a Pink Floyd laser light show. Once primed and good beans (a nice Full City+ roast on Guatemala Antigua beans with ~ 1 week since roasting) were added to the hopper, we pushed the button for out first shot — with the maximum dosing ("aroma" in its manual's parlance) and the smallest-sized shot from the factory presets.
Results in the tazza
The resulting shot was very large (at the rim of a regulation IPA demitasse), with a shockingly white thin crema, and a watery body. It tasted like what most horrible espresso shots tasted like in San Francisco back in the 1980s: overdrawn, over-extracted, and lacking any potency, body, or creaminess. The spent puck it spewed out was well-shaped but thoroughly soggy; gently touching the puck caused it to disintegrate into wet sludge.
Our immediate reaction was to head to the "Troubleshooting" section of the manual. It said much about the "Saeco Adapting System" and why your first shots might, well, suck. For example: "coffee is too weak" states that it is a "Rare event that occurs when the machine is automatically adjusting the dose. Brew a few coffees as described in section 'Saeco Adapting System'." Another measure of assurance was in the notes: "Note: These problems can be considered normal if the coffee blend has been changed or if the machine has just been installed."
The first shot was followed by a second identical espresso shot … followed by a third identical shot. Yes, superautomatic consistency alright. Which is great if the espresso is good, but it's a horrible curse and a waste of good coffee beans when the espresso sucks. We barely resisted the compelling urge to change practically every possible adjustment right away. Part of the reason was to let the machine invoke its "Adapting System" as advertised, and another part was to minimize the chaos of changing multiple variables at the same time.
Even so, how could an Italian company claim that such a machine is normally factory-tuned to produce "the perfect Italian espresso" right out of the box? I've been to Italy numerous times, and the espresso is never close to this bad — anywhere. Worse, Saeco's documentation warns that you might find some residual coffee grounds on your new machine, as they have been put through testing before packaging. Testing for what? The taste of watery 1980s San Francisco espresso made by clueless minimum-wage employees?
It's not just Saeco: we've found every other manufacturer of four-figure superautomatic home espresso machines guilty of the exact same failures. Yet despite this distasteful — but not unexpected — start, in our next installment we will write about the adjustments we made and how it may, or may not, have affected the quality of the resulting espresso shots.
"Secret, secret, I've got a secret. And it's how to make decent espresso out of me."
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Songbai Ji
Adjunct Associate Professor of Engineering
Adjunct Associate Professor of Surgery, Geisel School of Medicine
Adjunct Associate Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, Geisel School of Medicine
Adjunct Associate Professor of Engineering
- B.Sc. Materials Science, Shanghai Jiaotong University 1996
- M.S. Computer Science, Washington University in St. Louis 2003
- D.Sc. Mechanical Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis 2003
Research Interests
Image-guided surgery; medical imaging; multi-modality imaging; image analysis; finite element; numerical methods; image registration; traumatic brain injury; computational modeling of the human head
Active Research
- Image-guided neurosurgery
- Measuring material properties of the human brain in vivo
- Traumatic brain injury in college athletes
Selected Publications
Surgical Image Guidance
- S. Ji, X. Fan, K.D. Paulsen, D.W. Roberts, S.K. Mirza, S.S. Lollis. (2015). Patient Registration Using Intraoperative Stereovision in Image-guided Open Spinal Surgery. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, (in press).
- S. Ji, X. Fan, D.W. Roberts, K.D. Paulsen. Efficient Stereo Image Geometrical Reconstruction at Arbitrary Camera Settings from a Single Calibration. In: Barillot, C., Golland, P., Hornegger, J., Howe R. (eds.) MICCAI 2014, (Oral presentation; at a rate of ~4.00%, 36/~900)
- S. Ji, X. Fan, D.W. Roberts, A. Hartov, Timothy J. Schaewe, David A. Simon, and K.D. Paulsen. (2014) "Brain Shift Compensation via Intraoperative Imaging and Data Assimilation," in CRC Handbook of Imaging in Biological Mechanics, (pp. 229–240) CRC Press and Taylor & Francis, Editors: Corey Neu and Guy Genin.
- S. Ji, X. Fan, A. Hartov, D.W. Roberts, K.D. Paulsen. Cortical Surface Shift Estimation Using Optical Flow Motion Tracking and Stereovision via Projection Image Registration, Medical Image Analysis, 18:1169–1183, 2014. DOI: 10.1016/j.media.2014.07.001
- S. Ji, D.W. Roberts, A. Hartov, and K.D. Paulsen. Intraoperative patient registration using volumetric true 3D ultrasound without fiducials, Medical Physics. 39(12), 7540–7552, (2012).
- S. Ji, X. Fan, A. Hartov, D.W. Roberts, and K.D. Paulsen. "Estimation of intraoperative brain deformation", in Studies in Mechanobiology, Tissue Engineering and Biomaterials, Volume 11, 97–133, Y. Payan (Ed.), Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2012. DOI: 10.1007/8415_2012_129
- S. Ji, X. Fan, D.W. Roberts, K.D. Paulsen, Cortical surface strain estimation using stereovision. In: Fichtinger, G., Martel, A., Peters, T. (eds.) MICCAI 2011, Part I. LNCS, vol. 6891, pp. 412–419. Springer, Berlin (2011) (Oral presentation; at a rate of 4.15%, 34/819)
Traumatic Brain Injury
- S. Ji, W. Zhao, J.C. Ford, J.G. Beckwith, R.P. Bolander, R.M. Greenwald, L.A. Flashman, K.D. Paulsen, T.W. McAllister. (2015) Group-wise evaluation and comparison of white matter fiber strain and maximum principal strain in sports-related concussion. Journal of Neurotrauma. 32(7), 441-454. doi/abs/10.1089/neu.2013.3268 (front cover)
- W. Zhao, J. Ruan, S. Ji. Brain pressure responses in translational head impact: a dimensional analysis and a further computational study. Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology. DOI: 10.1007/s10237-014-0634-0
- S. Ji, W. Zhao. A pre-computed brain response atlas for instantaneous strain estimation in contact sports. Annals of Biomedical Engineering. DOI: 10.1007/s10439-014-1193-3
- S. Ji, W. Zhao, Z. Li, T.W. McAllister. (2014) Head impact accelerations for brain strain-related responses in contact sports: a model-based investigation. Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology. DOI: 10.1007/s10237-014-0562-z
- S. Ji, H. Ghadyani, R.P. Bolander, J.G. Beckwith, J.C. Ford, T.W. McAllister, L.A. Flashman, K.D. Paulsen, K. Ernstrom, S. Jain, R. Raman, L. Zhang and R.M. Greenwald. Parametric Comparisons of Intracranial Mechanical Responses from Three Validated Finite Element Models of the Human Head. Annals of Biomedical Engineering, 42(1): 11–24, 2014. doi:10.1007/s10439-013-0907-2
Selected Patents
- Method and apparatus for determining tumor shift during surgery using a stereo-optical three-dimensional surface-mapping system (9,336,592)
Simbex extends partnership with Dartmouth Medical School, Thayer School on concussion research
September 15, 2011
Intel Teams Up with Leading Researchers to Make Football Helmets Safer
November 15, 2010
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Dartmouth Engineering Postdoc Helps Surgeons Navigate the Brain
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Lab Report: Modeling the Impact of Brain Damage
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A post-doctoral associate position funded by the NIH is available at Thayer School. This position will support research in studying the biomechanical mechanisms of traumatic brain injury (sports-related concussion in particular) using longitudinal diffusion tensor imaging and neurocognitive testing. We are interested in correlating brain tissue-level mechanical responses obtained from simulating external head impacts with longitudinal neuroimaging and/or neurocognitive alterations.
Applicants are expected to have an earned Ph.D. degree in biomedical engineering, computer science, or a closely related field. Prior working experience in diffusion tensor imaging analysis is required. Expertise with image analysis and MATLAB is essential. The successful post-doc candidate will work closely with other lab members who investigate tissue-level brain mechanical responses via biomechanical simulations using a sophisticated computational model of the human head.
This position will involve working with a team of world-class biomechanical researchers in the field of sports-related concussion. The post-doc associate will be expected to participate in preparing research articles, presenting research findings at conference meetings, and contributing to grants. Therefore, excellent writing and communication skills are important.
Dartmouth College is an Ivy League institution. Our lab works closely with researchers in the Advanced Imaging Center and Advanced Surgical Center, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, as well as with other faculty in the engineering school and school of medicine.
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Qualifications: A Ph.D. in biomedical engineering, computer science, or a closely related field, with significant experience with diffusion tensor imaging, image-analysis, and MATLAB.
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Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth
Hanover, NH 03755
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Friday, November 5, 2010
Stuffing from scratch
You may or not know this about me, but now you will: stuffing is one of my FAVORITE foods ever. I tend to forget about it once summer rolls around and all I eat are hot dogs and hamburgers and watermelon, but as soon as it starts to get chilly, I start dreaming about stuffing.
Tonight I had the idea I would have stuffing and chicken, but realized on the way home I don't have my usual stuffing seasoning (Bells). So I checked out the Joy of Cooking and used the basic stuffing recipe in there, with some additions/subtractions (math!). And, obviously, with gluten free bread.
Stuffing from scratch
I guess this isn't technically totally from scratch, since I didn't make the bread. Shh.
1 1/2 loaves gf bread of your choice
2 carrots
2 ribs celery
1 onion
3 cloves garlic, smashed
4 T butter (1/2 stick)
fresh herbs, about a tablespoon of each: sage, thyme, rosemary, parsley
1/2-1 c chicken stock (or vegetable if that's what you have/want)
salt and pepper
Preheat the oven to 350. Cube up the bread and spread between two cookie sheets, and pop in the oven. Bake about 15 minutes, stirring once or twice, until your bread is toasty. Remove from the oven and set aside. Chop up all your vegetables, and melt the butter in a large pan. Cook the vegetables until starting to soften, about 10 minutes.
Toss in the herbs. Slowly pour over the stock, sprinkle with salt and pepper, and stir. Add as much broth as you think you need, but be very careful not to over-moisten or the bread will fall apart into (delicious tasting) mush.
Bake, covered, for 20 minutes, then uncover and bake 10 minutes to brown the top. Serve with chicken, turkey, pork, whatever. And cranberry sauce.
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Yum! I love stuffing too!! More than all the other fixings on Thanksgiving day :) I made gf cornbread stuffing last year for the gang of non gluten free people and they gobbled it up!ReplyDelete
My step-grandmother was Southern, so cornbread stuffing was our norm. I married a bread stuffing guy, but I have slowly converted him over to the cornbread side, especially now that we are living La Vida Gluten Free.ReplyDelete
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Rory Markas, 1955-2010
I met Rory Markas at KNX Radio in Los Angeles in 1989 and by the next year was fortunate enough to have him working for me as my weekend sports anchor and reporter at KCBS-TV downstairs in the same building.
ANAHEIM, CA: Angels Baseball Tuesday announced that veteran broadcaster Rory Markas passed away yesterday at his home in Palmdale, CA. No other details are available, and funeral service information is pending.
Markas, 54, spent eight seasons calling play-by-play with the Angels, both on television and radio. In addition to his responsibilities with the Angels, Markas also served as the play-by-play voice for the University of Southern California men's basketball team, and as a reporter for FOX 11 KTTV in Los Angeles.
Prior to joining the Angels, Markas handled the play-by-play duties for the USC baseball team on the Trojan Radio Network, as well as pre-game reporting for Trojan football. During that time, he also served as a sports reporter on KNX Newsradio 1070 in Los Angeles, and a sports anchor on FOX 11. From 1994-97, he was the lead announcer for the NBA's Los Angeles Clippers on the Clippers radio network.
Markas had extensive baseball broadcasting experience prior to joining the Angels, as he worked as a play-by-play announcer for the Milwaukee Brewers television network (1992-94) and as a substitute radio play-by-play announcer with the Brewers radio network from 1984-1994. He spent six seasons calling Pacific Coast League baseball, including three years with the Salt Lake City Gulls and three years with the Vancouver Canadians.
Markas' career included stints as an on-air sports talent for KCBS 2 (1990-97) and Prime Ticket (1987-90). He was honored with several broadcasting awards, including four Golden Mike Awards for radio reporting, and two Associated Press Sportscasting Awards. He also received the 2008 Radio Play-by-Play Award from the Southern California Sports Broadcasters Association.
A native of San Fernando Valley, CA, Markas attended Chatsworth High School. He later attended Los Angeles Valley College and Cal State Northridge. He is survived by his mother, Billie and brothers, Gary and Troy.
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Keith, I'm so sorry to hear of the passing of Rory Markas. I didn't know him, but I heard the pain in your voice tonight, and it struck me like an arrow. This last year has been a difficult one for many of us, and I know you have lost a lot of people who truly mattered to you. You and I are the same age, and we've reached that time in our lives when we start losing a lot of the people who are close to us. I wish I had something to offer you other than my most sincere condolences, or a "virtual hug"… but that is indeed all I have. If I had more to give, it would be yours for the asking. As to you being thin-skinned or a prima donna… well, forgive me, but I just don't see it. And those I've known who did fit that description would never, ever have admitted to it. Not even if their lives depended on it. But I understand, I think… there is always that drive to be a better person – or at least better than we are now. I feel it, and I honor it as best I can. But I have no idea if I'm better or not – that is for those around me to decide. So forgive me for this, but I think you're a damned good person. Perfect? Of course not. But damned good. I wish I could say I knew you personally – obviously I don't. As a person who enjoys the study of human nature, however, everything I've seen tells me that you have a tremendous heart. Okay, FINE, I'll stop embarrassing you now. 🙂 And I hope you can forgive me, but I'm gonna ask you again – one of these days, either here or on the show… please, tell us how your father is progressing? If I say "Pretty please and all that junk" will that help any? Yeah, I know I'm a pest. Tell me something I don't know! Hugs… and have a great night.
Keith, that was a wonderful tribute you gave this evening to your friend Rory Markas. He was a man who obviously meant a great deal to you. And from what you were saying, it's understandable. You have said when you suffer a loss, you always turn to baseball. That it helps you.
1995 NY vs. Seattle. 2001 NY vs. Arizona
Shortly before your tribute to Mr. Markas I heard that Randy Johnson had retired today. I wonder how many pitchers you have seen in your lifetime that were better than he was? I can only think of one.
1948braves, I was just talking to someone elsewhere about Randy Johnson. Hadn't heard he was retiring until just now… but he was always so much fun to watch! Both of those dates you listed are ones I remember well, because I watched him pitch both times, and it was a lot of fun. Especially in 1995, when the Mariners went to the playoffs for the first time. I was in Seattle then, and enjoyed it immensely. I've mentioned it here before (in detail) so I won't go into it again, other than to say the wild card game and the comeback series were amazing…. but I will say I'm sorry to hear Johnson is retiring. He's had a good career, and I'm glad I had the chance to watch him pitch a few games while I was in attendance. I'm sure a lot of opposing batters won't miss Randy Johnson's pitching, though! 🙂
olympictrees: The Seattle Mariners of those years is still to this day, my favorite team, other than my own. What unbelievable ballplayers they had back then.
What can I say about Randy Johnson? Without question, one of the best pitchers ever. Truly great pitchers are rare, and I think it's fair to say that we baseball fans were very fortunate to have been able to follow him his entire career. And I agree with you. The 1995 playoffs v. the NY Yankees was a tremendous series. I still look for it on tv when they're showing classic baseball games. I am sorry to see him retire as well. The announcement came as quite a surprise to me. All the memories came flooding back. He was truly something.
Hey there, Keith….
I also worked with Rory at KNX, and he was indeed a most delightful colleague. I unfortunately missed your on-air tribute tonight, but was greatly moved by the blog. Much as you describe, I had this uncanny feeling all day today….not only shock and sadness, but as you say, it struck me very deeply and I was not sure why. I enjoyed working with Rory, and hung out at awards dinners, etc. but we weren't close. When I read your words I realized you hit it exactly: in a field of high-maintenance, high-drama, and dare I say, neurotic ego-maniacs, (I include myself here) he was a prince of a fellow. Always. I can't think of a more gentlemanly, affable, amusing, and just plain charming guy, not only in sportscasting, but in broadcasting period. So thanks for helping me cope. Yours most respectfully, a former colleague
Good Lord, how sad it is that the New Year finds you writing yet another obituary. I hope that it's true as they say, that bad things come in threes, so this cycle will come to an end. There has been too much sad news lately.
Though Rory may have been witty, Keith, I actually found your side of that conversation with him to be equally amusing. "The Yale Bowl, with microphones" cracked me up, as did, "Your booth here is the size of a small Olympic village." ROTFL!
@olympictrees – I respectfully disagree on just one count: Keith has obviously known himself longer than any of us has known him (i.e., we've never even met him), so if he says he's displayed "prima-donna" tendencies in the past, I'll take him at his word, LOL. Not to play armchair psychiatrist here, but that sort of behavior usually results from a lack of confidence – something Keith eloquently admitted to, in the "Mea Culpa" he wrote several years ago. At least he, unlike most other prima-donnas (like those you mentioned!), has been wise enough to recognize and admit to that tendency. 🙂
I also think it's quite obvious that Keith is thin-skinned, if only judging by his posts at DKos. People will post some nasty things which obviously get under his skin, and he'll post responses to justify himself, or vent with a little snark, or both. Not in a prima-donna way, but in an overly sensitive way. There are two sides to every coin, though, and the flip side of being thin-skinned is being sensitive and sympathetic. For instance, when announcing Rory's passing on Countdown, one could hear that Keith was choked up. He's also obviously sensitive to other people's suffering; even on this very blog, he's been sympathetic to the plights of various baseball players who have been through hard times. Another case in point: His decades-long Merkle crusade. 🙂
Finally, Randy Johnson is my favorite player ever. No matter what any pitcher does, which one of them will take out a poor, unsuspecting bird in mid-flight? Who else will be able to intimidate batters with a 6'10" frame and such a menacing expression to go with it? I could repeat something the Arizona fans used to say about Randy in the 2001 World Series, but I want to keep this post family-friendly…!
If someone here will forgive me from paraphrasing a familiar sign-off…to Randy Johnson on his retirement, goodbye and good luck. 🙂
@unpaka27, I don't think we're all that far apart, really… I think perhaps one of the biggest parts of self-improvement is being aware of your own faults, and being willing to admit to them. That's the hardest part, and it requires a lot of self-awareness and a good amount of humility. I think Kennedy said it best, but I'm going to paraphrase just a bit: Better the occasional faults of a man living in the spirit of charity than the consistent omissions of a man frozen in the ice of his own indifference. I think it's great that Keith is able to express his emotions openly, and share them with us. I would rather know someone who is "thin-skinned" than someone who is cold and unemotional. The man's got a good heart, and it shows. So yeah… I think we agree more than we disagree. And I agree with you and with 1948braves – Randy Johnson was great fun to watch. I miss going to those Mariners games, back in the day… Griffey, Johnson, Alex Rodriguez in his early days, Buhner, Tino Martinez, Edgar Martinez… they were an amazing team, and with Randy pitching, how could you miss? They didn't win as many games as they might have (at least until 1995) but it was a lot of fun, and I had some good times with my kids at those games. One last note – Keith has made my life better in several ways… when I wasn't able to see the Sonics and Mariners games (because I was working at the Sonics games) I could come home and watch Dan and Keith, so I got the highlights of the game and some good entertainment as well. Then, with Countdown, he helped me keep my sanity during the Bush years, and has kept me informed since. And now, he's helped me rediscover my love of baseball…. so yeah, a seriously positive impact on my life. Thanks, Keith! 🙂
Excellent tribute. This is David Y. who also worked with Rory and yourself at KNX. It was a great time, exciting and fun. I spent much of yesterday thinking about all of the laughs I had with Rory. On the weekends at Columbia Square, Rory would go across the street to Thriiftys and buy a tabloid. Then he would come back into the newsroom and ask me why we weren't covering the "alien gives birth to grown man" story. It was a riot. Llittle did I know that the news business would end up depending on the tabloids for its tips. Rory was so genuine and maybe the most flexible sportscaster I've ever known. He did everything from roller derby to minor league baseball. He was hitting his stride. His best work to date were the tributes and interviews he did on Nick Adenhart. Who knew that less than a year later the tributes would be about Rory. A real loss for sports fans, but for you and I and those who knew him well, a real loss of a friend.
Like Olympictrees, I heard the pain thru your post. Great tribute. Rory's death brought memories of Don Drysdale's death. Both died young. I cherish every game I hear Vin Scully. He is the reason why I always carry a radio to the games.
Rest in peace Rory.
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I forgot to say that I am glad I found your blog.
KO, thank you for giving Rory the national stage of your tribute on Countdown. You said it all, in less than 60 seconds. I have worked with Rory for most of the last 20 years, most recently on the USC basketball broadcast. He always had a smile. Knowing him made my life better. I am grief-stricken, but I know he would not want me sitting here crying about him, so I will attempt to move forward.
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Naismith thoughts with Oviedo
Steven Naismith has expressed his sympathy for team-mate Bryan Oviedo, who broke his leg in two places during Everton's 4-0 win over Stevenage in the FA Cup.
Oviedo will have an operation on Monday to repair the double fracture caused to his left leg by the right boot of Stevenage midfielder Simon Heslop.
Several Everton players turned away in horror at the sight of Oviedo's left leg bent almost to a right angle on Saturday and he is now highly unlikely to play again this season.
Oviedo made only one Premier League start last term, but he has been enjoying a regular run in the side under Roberto Martinez.
The Costa Rican, who scored the winner against Manchester United last month, looked set to play a key role in Everton's push for Champions League qualification, but now he will have to endure a long and hard road back to full fitness.
"We came to win and we went ahead but then that horrible thing happened to Bryan and he is the main concern for us," Naismith told Everton TV.
"This was probably the first time in his Everton career where he has had a run of games and he has shown his potential.
"Everyone has been able to see what he has got and everyone in the team will be looking out for him now."
Oviedo attempted to hook the ball away from under Heslop's feet as the Stevenage midfielder was about to shoot.
But when Heslop swung his right boot at the ball he made contact with Oviedo's outstretched leg instead and it was clear from the player's reaction that a break had occurred.
Lucas Akins said Heslop was "upset" at causing the injury to Oviedo, but the Stevenage striker believes his team-mate should not take any blame.
"There was nothing malicious in it. It was just a freak accident," Akins said.
"He pulled his leg back to shoot and Oviedo has come in to try to block it and he has just kicked his foot.
"It wasn't a nice thing to see. It is horrible when you look at the leg and you see it's just dangling off. It was absolutely horrendous, definitely the worst thing I have seen in my career.
"We all wish him a speedy recovery.
"Simon obviously was a bit upset by it, but he is not coping too bad and obviously the lads are supporting him."
Given that he already had seven players out through injury, losing Oviedo is a big blow for Martinez - especially with Everton's next game being against Liverpool on Tuesday night.
But the Spaniard can take encouragement from the way his team so easily avoided a fourth round upset at the home of League One's bottom side on Saturday.
Naismith scored twice in the first half to give Everton some breathing space before substitutes John Heitinga and Magaye Gueye rounded off the win.
Naismith, who started up front ahead of the rested Romelu Lukaku, hopes he has played himself into contention for the Merseyside derby.
"I grew up playing up front and I have played there recently for Scotland," Naismith added.
"The manager says he is going to play me more there. I got my chances against Stevenage and I put them away so I have shown him that I can do it.
"Hopefully that has given him a thought for future games.
"We haven't got the biggest squad. We have got a lot of injuries so everyone has to play their part and I did mine against Stevenage thankfully."


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Conductor: Maestro Valery GergievBass: Ildar AbdrazakovMezzo soprano: Yulia MatochkinaSoprano: Tatiana SerjanTenor: Otar JorjikiaComposer: Giuseppe VerdiPrincipal Chorus Master: Andrei PetrenkoOrchestra: Mariinsky Theatre Symphony Orchestra
Musical Director: Valery Gergiev Director:
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Emmy award nominee. Verdi's Requiem is sometimes referred to as the
composer's twenty-sixth opera. He began to compose the work on the death of
Gioachino Rossini in 1868 and completed it in 1874, dedicating the piece to yet
another major figure in Italian culture – Alessandro Manzoni. The grand premiere
took place in Milan under the baton of the composer and featured the finest
singers in Italy. Today, the emotional power of Verdi's music proves
attractive to stage directors. Their desire to transform the mass into a
production may be explained by the musical style of the Requiem itself.
Daniele Finzi Pasca is convinced that "The Requiem, first and foremost,
contains musical tension, a search. It is a prayer that has such tremendously
vast expressive power that it allows us to search for another expressive form of
interpretation which is not always possible in a concert performance and also to
see the Requiem as an operatic work. This opus allows the soloists and chorus to
reflect on the meaning of life. There are pieces of music that literally demand
visual images. The scenes that we are trying to create in our production of the
Requiem are not narrative, rather they create a dialogue with the meaning that
we attach to our image of God. This Requiem was conceived specifically with the
Mariinsky Theatre in mind. In this production I want to denude the stage. And we
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The premiere production team includes: Valery Gergiev (Musical Director and
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and Alexis Bowles (Lighting Designers), Roberto Vitalini (Video Designer),
Chiqui Barbé (Make-Up Designer), Marina Mishuk (Musical Preparation) and Andrei
Petrenko (Principal Chorus Master).
Verdi's Requiem – the Italian master's only composition of
musical drama that is not an opera – has gone down in the history of music as
the most theatrical version of the traditional Catholic Mass for the Dead. It
was written as a result of circumstances in the composer's private life: at the
turn of the 1860s and 1870s Verdi lost a great many people who were dear to him.
His father, his close friend and collaborator the librettist Piave, and his
brilliant fellow-countryman and predecessor in opera Rossini all died one after
the other. This mournful list was completed by the death of the poet and writer
Alessandro Manzoni, who was for Verdi "a model of virtue and patriotism", and
for whom the composer had a profound respect both as a man and as an author.
Manzoni's death was also the direct cause of the writing of the Requiem. "I
am deeply saddened by the death of our Great Man!", Verdi wrote the following
day. I will go and visit his grave with the idea of proposing something in
reverence of his memory". What he proposed was a vast Requiem mass, first
performed on 22 May 1874, the anniversary of Manzoni's death, in St. Mark's
Cathedral in Milan, and conducted by the composer himself. A few days later the
"Requiem" was repeated at La Scala with enormous success, and subsequently in
Paris, Vienna, St Petersburg, and other cities. Verdi impegnated the
traditional structure of the Catholic mass with purely romantic expression. The
Requiem is close in style to Aida, on which the composer was working at
the same time. The intimate circle of musical images, characterised by bright
and clear delineation, and the musical theatre forms (ariosos, duets, trios and
quartets) endow the work with features of operatic expressiveness. It is on
account of this that the Requiem has become firmly established in the
repertoires of theatres and concert halls. Verdi divided the text of the
Catholic mass into seven movements.
№1 Requiem aeternam (Eternal Rest) acts as a
prologue. The choir pronounce the words of the prayer in an undertone. The
sorrowful sighs grow into a gentle, clear melody. Its heartfelt sound is in
contrast to the steadfast, energetic passage "Te decet hymnus» ("You are Worthy
of a Hymn"). Kyrie eleison (Lord, Have Mercy) begins
with a broad sweeping phrase by the tenor, who is gradually joined by the other
soloists and the choir. The calm, tranquil ending particularly emphasises the
tragic nature of the following movement. №2 Dies irae (Day of
Wrath) is the most important and most broadly developed part of
the work, and the one that portrays the most conflict. The sombre poetry of the
medieval hymn, written at a time when plague epidemics were carrying off tens of
thousands of human lives, inspired Verdi to create a stunning portrayal of the
Day of Judgment. The main theme of the movement returns several times during the
work, fulfilling the function of a kind of "memento mori". The episodes that
make up the movement are most reminiscent of operatic scenes. Tuba
mirum (Тhe Wondrous Trumpet) grows from the music of the "Dies
irae", and is no less powerful. It begins with an extensive symphonic
introduction: menacing fanfares that come ever closer against the background of
a drum roll. Might these not be echoes of the numerous European revolutions of
the 19th century, or the Franco-Prussian War in 1870-71, which was a
"rehearsal" for the First World War? At the moment of highest tension the choir
enters with its sternly majestic phrase, which comes to an abrupt and unexpected
end, to be replaced by a muffled, dying away bass solo in the rhythm of a
funeral march. Whereas the passages up to this point have been predominantly
choral, the soloists subsequently take centre stage, creating a gallery of human
images that react to the trials of life in various ways. The real highlight of
the second movement is the Lacrimosa (Lachrymal), a
sorrowfully tranquil quartet with the choir. This concluding episode with its
wonderfully beautiful melody is one of the most heartfelt passages in all
Verdi's music. A lighter atmosphere reigns in the three following movements.
№3 Offertorio (Offering of Gifts) is a decoratively
contemplative quartet for the soloists. №4 Sanctus
(Holy) is a massive, skilfully constructed polyphonic piece, a
hymn to the spirit of creation. №5 Agnus Dei (Lamb of
God) is a restrained, remote duet for the female soloists,
variations in an old style on an unusual theme in the spirit of medieval
ecclesiastical chants. The moods of the first movement gradually return in
the comparatively short №6 Lux aeterna (Eternal
Light), constructed on a contrast of light and shade.
№7 Libera me (Rescue me, O Lord) is the epilogue to
the Requiem, grandiose in scale. It opens with a passionate, expressive
recitative by the soprano soloist, followed by the main themes of the Dies
irae and Requiem aeternam. However, Verdi does not end his
composition with the traditional prayer for eternal rest. The Requiem is
completed by a monumental fugue with a heroic, strong-willed theme – a hymn to
the fortitude and might of the human spirit. Nadezha Kulygina


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Dubai, July 24, 2014
Emerging capital markets will double their global index share by 2030, with Saudi Arabia expected to emerge as the seventh largest emerging capital market by 2030, says a report.
Saudi Arabia will account for the second largest share of emerging ECM deal fees ($5.5 billion) over the next 17 years, said Credit Suisse Research Institute's "Emerging Capital Markets: The Road to 2030" report.
As a market with high retail ownership and a strong equity culture among high net worth individuals, secondary activity in equities should also prove to be a significant source of revenue, with average daily traded value expected to grow from $1.8 billion currently to $16.4 billion by 2030, it said.
The high forecast growth rate observed for Saudi Arabia would be consistent with a potential liberalisation of the country's markets, should the Saudi Capital Markets Authority proceed with a reform package opening its bourse to direct foreign participation, thus creating significant additional external demand for Saudi assets, it said.
Driven by accelerating growth in capital raising activities over the next one-and-a-half decades, emerging nation capital markets are expected to capture a more proportionate share of the global capital market universe relative to their economies, closing the gap with their developed peers,
It also says that despite rapid growth in capital-raising over the past two decades, emerging country capital markets remain underdeveloped relative to the size of their economies. However, this will change in coming years.
While emerging market economies currently account for a 39 per cent share of global output, or 51 per cent based on purchasing power parity, they only represent 22 per cent of global equity market capitalization and 14 per cent of the global corporate and sovereign bond markets.
However, by 2030, their share of global equity market capitalization will increase to 39 per cent and, the corporate bonds and sovereign bonds share is expected to grow to 36 per cent and 27 per cent, respectively.
"The disparity between developed and emerging nations in the global capital market universe will close by 2030. This should be driven by a disproportionately large contribution from emerging market equity and corporate bond supply and demand driven by growth in domestic mutual, pension and insurance funds, given the relatively high savings ratios prevalent among emerging economies. Moreover, the growing ability of Emerging Market corporates to access local currency capital markets shields them from the risk of exposure to unforeseen exchange-rate volatility," says Stefano Natella, global head of equity research, Investment Banking, at Credit Suisse in New York.
Credit Suisse forecasts that the fastest 17-year nominal US dollar compound annual growth rate in market value of any asset class will be Emerging Market equities and corporate bonds at 13 per cent, followed by Emerging Market sovereign bonds at 8 per cent, doubling the growth pace of their developed peers. Credit Suisse is forecasting growth in developed market equities, corporate and sovereign bonds to slow down at a pace of 7 per cent, 5 per cent and 3 per cent, respectively.
Consequently, the market value for emerging equities, corporate and sovereign bonds increases by $98 trillion, $47 trillion and $17 trillion, respectively, in nominal dollar terms between 2014 and 2030E, versus gains of $125 trillion, $52 trillion and $24 trillion, respectively, for these asset classes in the developed world.
"In this study, we extrapolate established historical patterns of growth in emerging and developed capital markets to assist in projecting their absolute and relative dimension and composition of market value by the year 2030. We find a strong relationship between the historical expansion of developed nation aggregate equity and corporate bond market value relative to GDP and gains in economic productivity.
Thus, we used long-term projections of per capita GDP to make forecasts for both emerging and developed market equity and fixed income issuance over the 17 years to 2030," explains Alexander Redman, global emerging markets equity strategist, Investment Banking at Credit Suisse in London.
China to overtake the UK, Japan in 2030
While the US will remain the largest equity market in 2030 with a capitalisation of $98 trillion and a weight of 35 per cent, China will overtake both the UK and Japan to become the second largest market with a $54 trillion capitalisation and a weight of 19 per cent.
Cumulatively China has accounted for 40 per cent ($639 billion) of the total emerging world equity capital markets deal value (initial public offerings and secondary public offerings) since 2000. Over the next 17 years, China's share will increase to 60 per cent or $3.6 trillion, representing a 5.5 fold nominal increase.
The forecast is based on the assumption that China's capital account liberalizes over the next 17 years, giving foreign investors access to the A-share market.
Similarly, Credit Suisse also forecasts China's dominance of corporate bond market deal value in Emerging Markets over the last 14 years (a 37 per cent share or $1.6 trillion of the total) will persist, eventually taking a 53 per cent share (or $18.4 trillion) of total Emerging Market primary activity by 2030.
China will also represent the largest growth in corporate bond market value by 2030. Total issuance originating from China is projected to increase by nearly tenfold from $3 trillion in 2014 to $32 trillion by 2030, consistent with large-scale disintermediation by Chinese banks of state-owned enterprise and local government assets.
Underwriting fees
Credit Suisse also forecasts emerging countries not only will generate more underwriting fees, but will also capture a bigger share of the pie over the next 17 years.
According to the report, total capital markets underwriting fees globally for the period from 2014 to 2030 will reach $638 billion in nominal terms, compared to the $ 307 billion in fees earned in the period 2000 to 2014. Of the fee pool, 40 per cent or $256 billion is expected to be generated from Emerging Markets, versus a far smaller share of 16 per cent (or $49 billion) since 2000.
The division of fees between equity and debt capital markets until 2030 will also be much more balanced (49 per cent / 51 per cent, respectively), in comparison to a 67-33 per cent split as recorded from 2000 to 2013.
The wallet share of equity and debt capital market fees captured by Emerging Market local brokers will also rise from 45 per cent ($22 billion) from 2000 to 2013 to 58 per cent ($149 billion) between 2014 and 2030E.
Other key conclusions of study include:
• The Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS) increase their share of the global equities universe to 26 per cent by the end of 2030, up from 11 per cent in 2014 and 2 per cent in 1996. Within Emerging Markets, BRICs will represent 66 per cent of equity market capitalisation by 2030, up from 52 per cent in 2014 and 21 per cent in 1996.
• Saudi Arabia, Indonesia and Turkey will undergo a meaningful change in their relative size rankings within Emerging Markets—Saudi Arabia rising to the sixth largest market from 10th, Indonesia rising to seventh largest from 12th, and Turkey rising to 10th largest from 17th.
• Countries with the swiftest equity capitalisation dollar CAGR between 2014 and 2030E are Turkey (17 per cent), China (16 per cent) and Indonesia (15 per cent)—these growth rates include both the impact of dollar price returns and that of net issuance and inclusions.
• An almost doubling of the global sovereign bond market value by 2030 to $84 trillion from $43 trillion in 2014 of which 42 per cent of the gain is attributable to Emerging Markets.
• The total cumulative secondary equity revenue opportunity is estimated to be $392 billion in emerging markets and $827 billion in the developed markets between 2014 and 2030. - TradeArabia News Service


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Yearly Archives: 2011
Eccles Library website winter update
Breaking news: the Library's website has a much-needed update!
Eccles Library Holiday Hours
Eccles Library will be on reduced hours beginning Sunday, December 18, 2011 through Sunday, January 8, 2012.
Teaching information literacy with a focus on news
As reported on PBS's News Hour, a four-year-old program known as the News Literacy Project is being taught "to middle and high school students in 21 inner-city and suburban schools in the Washington, D.C., area, New York City, and Chicago. With funding from "a combination of foundations, corporations and individuals," it is designed to help …Read More »
Remotely checking newborns in intensive care: expensive but worth it
As reported in iMedicalApps, a number of neonatal intensive care units (NICU for short) in hospitals around the country have implemented Nicview, a system that allows parents to check-in on their child from anywhere via live web feed that is accessible from a computer, tablet, or smartphone. The system is expensive, though: $30,000 to set …Read More »
Research log: learning from experience
In a recent blog post, Meredith Farkas, author of Social Software in Libraries, points out that students doing research often do not take the time to reflect on their experience doing research — what did they learn from it, what can be done better next time, etc. Because this reflection is not usually written into …Read More »
Construction notice: HSEB parking garage closure
The HSEB parking garage will be closed Sun., 12/8-11/11 so a construction crane can be assembled.
Extended hours at Marriott Library
Need a place to study late at night, or at other times when Eccles Library is closed? In response to the high demand for extended library hours during the week before finals, ASUU and the J. Willard Marriott Library have collaborated to accommodate the needs of students. Beginning at noon on Sunday, December 4th, the …Read More »
HSEB: Alumni Hall carpet replacement
Alumni Hall in the Health Sciences Education Building (HSEB) will be closed from December 17, 2011 through January 1, 2012 for carpet replacement.
Using Kaltura for Online Video Publishing
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NAACP hopeful complaints against New London police will get new look
Following months of frustration over what appeared to be a lack of interest by federal authorities into civil rights complaints against the New London police department, a member of the state NAACP said there are new encouraging signs that those complaints are being addressed.
Tamara Lanier, criminal justice chairwoman for the state NAACP, said last week's meeting with representatives from the U.S. Attorney's Office and New London NAACP President Don Wilson left her with the impression that concerns about what appears to be a "pattern of abuse and racial profiling" are getting a hard look.
Lanier said it's been several years since federal authorities were first presented with a host of complaints against the police department, many of which came to light after a local man, Lance Goode, alleged a New London police officer planted drugs at the scene of his arrest.
The complaints range from racial profiling and physical abuse to wrongful arrests and searches, Lanier said. She said there are stories about raids without warrants and arrests in cases that should have never made it to court.
"These are not isolated incidents or an aberration," Lanier said. "I think the mentality (with the police department) has been, we'll do anything to make a case."
Lanier said it was a setback last year when U.S. justice department officials announced privately they would not pursue a criminal case against Roger Newton, the former officer whom Goode accused of planting drugs. Goode has a pending civil complaint against Newton.
Since that time, however, Lanier said it appears the federal authorities are revisiting the civil accusations and are now offering training to the police department. She said Police Chief Margaret Ackley has made a good faith effort to improve the department but is still stymied by politics and what Lanier called distractions by the union.
The U.S. Attorney's Office declined to comment on any pending investigations, criminal or civil.
Mayor Daryl Justin Finizio on Tuesday said he supported efforts of the NAACP and believes an outside review by federal authorities "would be helpful in ensuring the past practices in our department of which I have been critical are indeed corrected.
"I called for investigation into the police department as a candidate (for mayor) and I believe that, because of some of the incidents brought to light … it's fully appropriate a federal investigation be done," Finizio said.
Finizio said, however, it would be up to the U.S. Attorney's Office to determine if an investigation is warranted.
"I can only help ensure any past practices that need to be corrected are corrected," Finizio said.
Lanier said training at the police department being performed by the U.S. Attorney's Office is a "good start," to address concerns.
New London Deputy Police Chief Peter Reichard said the current training was requested by the department and is part of what is done during the normal course of being a state-certified agency. The training involves "Terry stops" or the temporary detention of a person because of reasonable suspicion of a crime, along with training on laws pertaining to search and seizure - "what you can and what you can't do legally," Reichard said.
Officers are being updated on the latest U.S. Supreme Court ruling in both subjects, he said,
"Any training coming from the (U.S. Attorney's Office) is valuable to officers on the street," Reichard said.
He said he was not privy to any ongoing investigations by federal authorities and said all citizens' complaints are quickly acknowledged, documented and addressed according to the department's general duty manual.
"All complaints against the department are fully investigated," he said.
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